Callogryllus ovilongus Saeed & Yousuf, 2000

Sultana, Riffat, Sanam, Surriya, Kumar, Santosh, R, Sheik Mohammad Shamsudeen & Soomro, Fakhra, 2021, A review of Gryllidae (Grylloidea) with the description of one new species and four new distribution records from the Sindh Province, Pakistan, ZooKeys 1078, pp. 1-33 : 1

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scientific name	Callogryllus ovilongus Saeed & Yousuf, 2000
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Material examined.

Pakistan, Sindh Prov. • 4♀; Riffat, Surriya ; 16 Sep. 2020; Nagarparkar 24.3572°N, 70.7555°E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Medium size. Colouration yellow (Fig. 1Q View Figure 1 ). Head short, narrow, very neat. Eyes rounded, moderately projecting; ocelli small (Fig. 3F View Figure 3 ). Pronotum 1.5 × as wide as long, slightly concave at anterior margin, straight at posterior margin; one side rather strongly convex (Fig. 5G View Figure 5 ). Elytra yellow, reduced (Fig. 10D View Figure 10 ). No wings. Legs light yellow, hind femora thick at base and slightly narrow at posterior, armed with six internal spines. Hind tibiae small, narrow, and straight. Abdomen dark yellowish above, pubescent and pale yellow beneath. Ovipositor rather long, very slender with extremely narrow, acute apical valves (Fig. 1Q View Figure 1 ).

Female: LH 3.85 (mm), LP 3.5 (mm), LT 5.2 (mm), LF 4.1 (mm), LO 15 (mm), TBL 16 (mm).

Ecology.

During the present study, females of this species are reported from Nagarparkar, Desert Thar, from xerophytic plants which were surrounded by sagebrush and saltbush trees.

Global distribution.

China, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan ( Cigliano et al. 2020).

Remarks.

This species was erected by Saeed (2000) from Peshawar, KPK based on a single female specimen; subsequently Malik et al. (2013) reported its male from the Hyderabad -Sindh. We have a single female from the rocky area of Nagarparkar and confirm its presence in the desert area.